Greetings all. I'm excited to be part of this cooking blog, although as you can guess from the title I am going to post a bit sporadically (ie. today is Tuesday...).
Sundays in our house are a day of relaxation, a day for me to cook something just for the fun of it: baking or roasting of slowcooking. This week I was keen to make some sort of family-friendly creamy chickeny pasta something.
I started with thigh fillets, shallots, mustard, and mushrooms. I was aiming for good carmelisation on the shallots and chicken but fell short of the mark; firstly I was a bit impatient, and secondly my saucepans are cheapies and I was too lazy to use a frypan first. Then I deglazed with chicken stock and let it simmer for a couple of hours or so until the chicken was lovely and tender.
Right before the end, I added a bunch of asparagus and cooked until tender. I took it a little further to make sure that the baby could eat them.
Then I poured in a good dollop of cream and heated until just boiling, then removed from heat and added parmesan cheese to taste (from Norton St grocers - yum!).
My sauce was finished! It sat on the stove smelling delicious until it was time to taste.
Here is our 'Plus 1' testing out the sauce, served with peas and bread for dipping. She approved! She even tried the asparagus (it wasn't a hit, but at least she tried some).
Later in the evening we had ours over rigatoni with pepper and extra parmesan. Not the healthiest, but very delicious. It made good leftovers, too.
Welcome all new chefs! Charles St Kitchen I hope you don't mind if I renamed your posting. If all your postings use Charles St Kitchen we can see where the recipes are coming from. By the way i like your taster. I hope she is not too tough on your cooking.
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